12-14 May / mai 2016
Trottier Building
3630 rue University
McGill University, Montreal
On Thursday and Friday coffee breaks will be held in the lobby of the Wong Building (https://www.mcgill.ca/maps/wong-building), which is located right in front of the Trottier building. This is also the venue for breakfast Friday morning.
On Saturday breaks will be held in the food & beverage area of the Trottier Building.
Session 1A
Thursday / jeudi
12:30-2:00pm
Popular Narrative: Horror, Hope, Trauma, and Transformation
Moderator: Valérie Savard
Nikolai Rodrigues, Queens University
“Where none are truly living”: Borderland Monstrosities in Hiromi Goto’s Half-World and Darkest Light
Clare Wall, York University
Green Effects: Canadian Science Fiction’s Environmental Futures
Laura Wiebe, Brock University
Posthuman Entanglements in Justina Robson’s Quantum Gravity Series
Session 1B
Thursday / jeudi
12:30-2:00pm
The Popular Music Industry
Moderator: Maxim Bonin
Peter Urquhart, Wilfrid Laurier University
Makin’ It: The Meatballs Soundtrack Album
Keir Keightley, University of Western Ontario
A Tin Pan Alley for the Twenty-First Century
Maxim Bonin, UQAM – Université du Québec à Montréal
L’amateurisme intentionnel et la professionnalisation de l’amateurisme dans le vidéo-clip musical: le cas de M.I.A. et Placebo
Session 1C
Thursday / jeudi
12:30-2:00pm
Images of Gender, Sex, Sexuality
Moderator: Troy Bordun
Claudie Massicotte, Young Harris College
Bodies that Speak: Hysteria, Textuality, and Femininity at the Salpêtrière
Troy Bordun, Trent University
Going Solo: An Uncertain History of Internet “Solo Girls”
BREAK 2:00-2:15pm
Wong Building
Session 2A
Thursday / jeudi
2:15-3:45pm
Video Games and Cultures: Narratives, Identities, Ideologies
Moderator: Ryan Scheiding
Andrea Luc & Amanda Wong, Ryerson & York University
Scared Straight: A Content Analysis of Gone Home
Sarah Stang, York University
Big Daddies and Broken Men: Postfeminist Fatherhood in Video Games
Rebecca Waldie, Concordia University
Playing with Virtual Identity
Session 2B
Thursday / jeudi
2:15-3:45pm
Popular Cinemas: Sexism, Alternative Cinemas and the Museum-Movie Hybrid
Moderator: Jannik Haruo Eikenaar
Eyitayo Aloh, Trent University
Sexism in Film: What Hollywood can learn from Nollywood
Mark Hayward, York University
Exploring Alternative Cinemas in Toronto and Montreal
Derek Foster, Brock University
The problem and the potential of popular culture as public history: Fictive Facticity at the Indiana Jones Exhibit
Session 2C
Thursday / jeudi
2:15-3:45pm
Memory, Memorialization, Knowledge
Moderator: Laura Wiebe
Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis, Wilfrid Laurier University
Black Slavery in Canada and the Legacy of Silence: Memory Politics of What is Forgotten and Remembered
Kayla Copland, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Revitalization of Auschwitz Tattoos: Identification and Identity Construction of Generation (wh)Y
Matthew Fesnak, Wilfrid Laurier University
The Epistemology of the Catalogue: Knowledge and its Limitations
Session 2D
Thursday / jeudi
2:15-3:45pm
Fashion Capital(s) and Diverse Locations of (Pop)Cultural Production
Moderator: Kathryn Franklin
Susan Ingram, York University
Fashioning Urban Imaginaries: Los Angeles’ Second Skin
Kathryn Franklin, York University
Starring Toronto: Egoyan’s Chloe and the Adornment of a City
Nathaniel Weiner, York & Ryerson
Universities Between Fashion Capital and Subcultural Capital: The Uses of Knowledge and Performance of Expertise in Online Menswear Communities
Rebecca Halliday, York & Ryerson Universities
The Glamourai’s Life: The Performance of Habitus in the Fashion Blogosphere
BREAK 3:45-4:00pm
Wong Building
Session 3A
Thursday / jeudi
4:00-5:30pm
Theorizing New Media
Moderator: Chris Richardson
Scott Henderson, Brock University
New Media Old Theory: Yik Yakking About Bergson and Deleuze
Quinn Valencourt, Brock University
The Uninformative Information Society: New Media Idiocy for Me, Myself, and I
Josh Augustino, Brock University
I’ve Been Looking So Long at These Pictures of You That I Almost Believe That They’re Real: Dasein, New Media and the Curios Case of Physical Presence
Session 3B
Thursday / jeudi
4:00-5:30pm
Popular Television
Moderator: Marilyn Terzic
Milena Stanoeva, York University
Hate Watching Trash TV: Intersections of class and anti-fandom
Nicole Marrello, York University
Reality Television versus Reality: The Impact of Television Dance Programming on Young Dancers and their Perception of Self
Marilyn Terzic, Université du Québec à Montréal
Justice Served: Syndi-Court and the Art of the Tease
Session 3C
Thursday / jeudi
4:00-5:30pm
Making Sense of the Strange
Moderator: Nikolai Rodrigues
Janet Lemon Williams, York University
Zombie Zeitgeist: The Post-Modern Body in the Afterlife
Ken Paradis, Wilfrid Laurier University
Leftovers and Resurrections: Providentiality in post-religious, post-secular pop culture
Kyle Curlew, Queens University
The Legend of Slenderman: The Boogieman of Surveillance Society
Session 3D
Thursday / jeudi
4:00-5:30pm
The Politics of Popular Televisual and Cinematic Representations
Moderator: Derek Foster
Michelle Johnson, York University
Still the Fairest of Them All: Race and Redemption in Disney’s Once Upon a Time
Jessica Bay, York & Ryerson Universities & Jonathan Osborn, York University
“Ooh Child, Things Are Going to Get Brighter:” Sentimentalizing Masculinity, Animating Dysfunction, Normalizing Trauma, and Dismissing Catastrophe in Guardians of the Galaxy
Matt Ventresca & Scott Carey, Queens University
Whiplash: Sport, Practice and the Biopolitics of Musicianship
RECEPTION
Thursday / jeudi
7:00-11:00pm
La Vitrola
BREAKFAST / DEJEUNER
Friday / vendredi
8:15-8:45am
Wong Building
Session 4A
Friday / vendredi
8:45-10:15am
Only in Canada: Celebrity in the Great White North
Moderator: Lorraine York
Michele Byers, Saint Mary’s University
“Have you met… Robin?”: Canadian Celebrity as Sitcom Trope
Henry Adam Svec, Millsaps College
What Would McLuhan Do with Bieber? Canadian Media Theory and/as Celebrity Studies
Jennifer Bell, University of Alberta
Ascribed, Achieved, or Avoided…Political Celebrity from Pierre to Justin: (Re) Branding the Trudeau Brand
Charlotte Fillmore-Handlon, Concordia University
The Path to Success Points South and Other Dominant Discourses of Celebrity in Canada
Session 4B
Friday / vendredi
8:45-10:15am
Crafting: Cultural Politics and Material Practice
Moderator: Andrea Beverley
Stephanie Mullen, University of Ottawa
Making Craft Hip! …And the Methodological Challenges it Creates in Measuring the Status of Traditional Craft in Canada
Helene Vosters, Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas
Part I: The Canadian Maple Leaf: From Mascot to Palimpsest
Part II: Flag of Tears: Lament for the Stains of a Nation Embroidery Circle (participatory performance)
Session 4C
Friday / vendredi
8:45-10:15am
Popular Tropes within Hip Hop Culture
Moderator: Mary Fogarty
Sean Robertson-Palmer, Humber College
“Catch a Case, Get a Jewish Lawyer, Beat it with Cheese”: The Jewish Lawyer Trope in Hip Hop Lyrics
Serouj Aprahamian, York University
Ballerinas Over Breakers: The Disparaging Depictions of Hip-Hop Dance in Hollywood
Session 4D
Friday / vendredi
8:45-10:15am
The Sexual and Gender Politics of Popular Culture
Moderator: Arun Jacob
Stephanie Patrick, University of Ottawa
Breaking Free: Balancing enforced and chosen domesticity in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Gada Mahrouse, Concordia Institute
On “trigger warnings” and “charged humour”
Mary Grace Lao, York University
Feminist Facebook and the Navigation of Feminist Spaces
Session 4E
Friday / vendredi
8:45-10:15am
Virtuality and Crime
Moderator: Josh Augustino
Chris Richardson, Lambda Pi Eta & Young Harris College
Beyond Good and Evil: Crime as Virtual Reality
Courtney Underwood, Young Harris College
Disciplining the Tweeters, Taggers, and Yik-Yakers: Social Media and Moral Panic in a Rural High School System
Patrick Silcox and Chris Richardson, Young Harris College
The New Pirates of the Caribbean: Alien Ontologies and the Changing Physicality of Piracy in Post-modernity
BREAK 10:15-10:30am
Session 5A
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Hip-hop (and) Culture
Moderator: Priya Rehal
Alexandra Boutros, Wilfrid Laurier University
Contrapuntal Analysis: hip hop, Canada and positionality
Pamela Andrews, Wilfrid Laurier University
Skookum Aesthetics: The Material Culture of Indigenous Hip Hop
Maya Stitski, Queen’s University
Feminism, Politics, and Emancipation: Undoing Culture Through Hip Hop
Session 5B
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Musical Meanings
Moderator: Keir Keightley
Farley Miller, McGill University
How about a tune on the electric sitar?: Fashioning new “old” sounds in 1960s popular music
Bronwyn Malloy, University of British Columbia
“Never knowing what survival means”: Atwoodian Survival in Contemporary Canadian Indie Song Lyrics
Eric Smialek, McGill University
Unlimited Semiosis : An Unending Chain of Associations in Extreme Metal
Session 5C
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Mediating Religion
Moderator: Ken Paradis
Beverley Best, Concordia University
The Secular Religion of Visibility in Late Consumerism
Anderson Moss, Young Harris College
The Inverse Receptions of Zen Meditation and Islamic Prayer in America
Sukshmadarshi Maharaj, University of Toronto
Brahman and Brand: Exploring the connection between Vedanta and the work of Russell Brand
Session 5D
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Visual Media: Narratives, Ideologies and Representations
Moderator: Scott Henderson
Michael Thorn, Ryerson University
Reading Controversy Clearly: Trying to Understand Scientology through the Governmentality of Mediated Representations
Simon Orpana, University of Alberta
From The Ashes of Fordism: Post-industrial Youth in Lost River and It Follows
Jannik Haruo Eikenaar, University of British Columbia
The Audience Strikes Back: Responding to Salman Rushdie’s ‘Voice in the Cinema’
Session 5E
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Comic Books on Screen: Gender and Ideology
Moderator: Jessica Bay
Aidan A Lockhart, Guelph University
Capes, Cowls and the Fragments of Ideology: Towards A Framework for Revealing Retributive Ideology in Film
Arun Jacob, Independent Scholar
Netflix & Chill with Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Interrogating Gendered Ideologies and Urban Revanchism
Session 5F
Friday / vendredi
10:30am-12:00pm
Dolls, Dystopias and Aliens: Uses and Transformations in Science Fiction
Moderator: Antonio Dominguez Leiva
Valerie Savard, University of Alberta
“I Try to be my Best”: Uploading Emotional Labour in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse
Evangeline J Kroon, University of Guelph
Mad Max: Fury Road: A Case Study of Changing Female Narratives in Dystopic and Post-Apocalyptic Pop-Culture
Caroline-Isabelle Caron, Queen’s University
Better Aliens: Aboriginal use of Western popular cultural tropes about extraterrestrials
LUNCH & KEYNOTE + AGM
12:30-2:45pm
La Vitrola
Guest speaker: Barry K. Grant
Session 6A
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
The meaning of the popular music artist
Moderator: Claire Gjertsen
Nicholas Greco, Providence University College
Feist as Transnational, Liminal, Neutral
Emilie Fournier, Laurentian University
The Good Canadian Boy Trope, Cultural Appropriation, and Masculine Performance: Justin Bieber’s Comeback
Bernie Murray, Ryerson University
John Coltrane: “Sheets of Sound” and a True Jazz Icon
Claire Gjertsen, University of Calgary
The Dual Nature of Bob Dylan: Challenges in Living Artist Memory Studies
Session 6B
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
Popular Culture in Canada
Moderator: Jean-Michel Berthiaume
Miles Weafer, York & Ryerson Universities
How the Canadian government talks about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: A rhetorical analysis of broadcasting policy discourse
Danielle J. Deveau, University of Waterloo
The Canadian Unpopular: Examining the “nots” of Canadian pop culture
Hélène Laurin & Jean-Michel Berthiaume, Université du Québec à Montréal
The state of popular culture analysis in francophone Québec
Session 6C
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Moderator: Simon Orpana
Roger Saul, University of New Brunswick
Teaching Duquan Weems: Fallacies of the Hero-Teacher Construct as Seen in The Wire
Andrew Wilkin, McMaster University
The Learning and Working Dead: Focusing on Emancipation and Empathy when Discussing Zombies in the Classroom
Jessica Davey-Quantick & Michelle Smith, Queens University
Twilight of the Living Dead: Engaging Students with Cannibalism and Glitter
Session 6D
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
Cultural Practices
Moderator: Shirley Roburn
Andrea Beverley, Mount Allison University
“Very polite guerrilla publishing”: Zines in Small Town Canada
Ella Rockar, University of Manitoba
Voluntourism: Exploitation in Vogue?
Shirley Roburn, McGill University
A Whale of a Tale: The Story of Skana
Session 6E
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
Media and Celebrity in the 21st Century
Moderator: Claudie Massicotte
Myriam Durocher, Université de Montréal
Les théories de la médiatisation pour comprendre la pratique de l’égoportait
Priya Rehal, York & Ryerson Universities
“MAJOR KEY” – Transmitting Conspicuous Consumption and Masculinities via Snapchat
Kyle Asquith, University of Windsor
YouTube child stars, the cool sell of influencer toy marketing, and the co-production of celebrity
Lorraine York, McMaster University
John Cusack’s Activism and the Politics of Reluctant Celebrity
Session 6F
Friday / vendredi
3:15-4:45pm
Documentary Presentation
Moderators: Lindsay Balfour and Maya Stitski
John Bessai, Trent University
Women of Change (50 min)
BREAK 4:45-5:00pm
Wong Building
Session 7A
Friday / vendredi
5:00-6:30pm
Cultural Identities, Spaces and Power
Moderator: Matt Ventresca
William Hooshmandi, Brock University
The Iranian Diaspora: Rebuilding Kin and Cultural Identity and Creating Virtual Community through Social Technology
Syeda Bukhari, Simon Fraser University
South Asian Ethnic Radio in BC: Creating Knowledge, Engagement and Civic Integration
Cheryl Macdonald, Concordia University
The Legitimacy of Women’s Ice Hockey and Cultural Citizenship in the 2016 Women’s Winter Classic
Bachir Sirois-Moumni, University of Quebec
Did you say Ultras in Canada? Questioning hegemonic cultural space with a spectacular soccer subculture
Session 7B
Friday / vendredi
5:00-6:30pm
Contemporary China in/and Popular Culture
Moderator: Byron Hauck
Alvis Choi, York University
The Li Yuchun Phenomenon – Queering Pop Culture and Nationalism in Contemporary China
Qinwen Yu, Simon Frasher University
Imagining Modernity: Discursive Struggles in News Media Portrayals of China’s Rise
Byron Hauck, Simon Fraser University
China’s Peasants Agitated by Distance: A ‘Plea for Time’ in the Global Village
Session 7C
Friday / vendredi
5:00-6:30pm
Social Mediation, Social Media, Discourse and Representation
Moderator: Danielle Deveau
Louis Bedard Giulione, UQAM
Mobilité sociale et Goût musical : Le goût musical en tant qu’outil d’intégration sociale chez les adolescents
Erin Scott, University of Manitoba
‘There’s an app for that’: The influence of mHealth apps on the discursive representation of health
Sasha Cocarla, University of Ottawa
Of Excess and Instability: Understandings of Bisexuality and Mental Health in Popular Culture
Session 7D
Friday / vendredi
5:00-6:30pm
Visual Cultures, Political Arts
Moderator: Estee Fresco
Sarah JM Kolberg, State University of New York at Buffalo
Der Mensch und die Technik: the Sublime Terror of Dada’s Mechanico-morphic Men
Mitsutoshi Oba, Northern Michigan University
Eclectic Symbolism: Evocation of Multimedia and Multisensory Experience in The Four Sylvan Sounds by Thomas W. Dewing
Estee Fresco, Western University
Familiarly Unfamiliar: Kent Monkman, the Uncanny and Reconciliation in Canada
Lindsay Balfour, New York University
Women, ISIS, and the Street Art of Resistance
Session 7E
Friday / vendredi
5:00-6:30pm
Cultural Production and Cultural Practices: Beauty Pageants, Youtube Videos, Selfies
Moderator: Susan Driver
Brian Saludes Bantugan, St. Paul University, Manila
And Adam Created Eve – The Social Construction of the Ideal Feminine by Male Cultural Producers for the Miss Universe Pageant
Roshney Kurian, McMaster University
Miss America 2014: Reconfiguring the ‘Brown’ Woman as an ‘American’ Woman Through Youtube Videos by South Asian Diasporic Youth
Olga Valentin, Fielding Graduate University
Millennial Selfies: Visualizing Self-Narratives
Susan Driver, York University
Selfies, Usies, Affective Relations and Recognition: theorizing selfies as engaging and meaningful cultural practices
Special Event: Concert
Dead Messenger
9:00pm
La Vitrola
$5 at the door
BREAKFAST / DEJEUNER
8:30-9:00am
Trottier Building
Session 8A
Saturday / samedi
9:00-10:30am
Popular Fandom, Activism, Politics
Moderator: Nicholas Greco
Marlie Centawer, Queen’s University
“I Want to Hold Your Hand 4ever!” The Beatles, Graffiti, and Popular Music Fandom
Alexandra Pennington-Little, McMaster University
We Are Little Monsters: Lady Gaga’s mobilization of music fans for social activism
Adam Behr, Newcastle University
Imagining all the people: The shifting relationship between popular music and politics in political campaigning
Session 8B
Saturday / samedi
9:00-10:30am
The Politics of Fashion
Moderator: Grace Paizen
Daryna Granik, Ryerson University
Role of Vogue Magazine in the transformation of screen characters into style icons
Grace Paizen, University of Winnipeg
Fashion Orientalism: The Process and Production Behind High Fashion’s Most Notorious Symptom
Session 8C
Saturday / samedi
9:00-10:30am
Representing Dis/Ability
Moderator: Sasha Cocarla
Torsa Ghosal, Ohio State University
Digital Poetics and Disability in Typographical Fictions
Malcolm Matthews, Brock University
Autism as Genre: Media Representations of the Autistic Techno-Savant
Shawn Newman, Queen’s University
Resistance and Erasure: Pop Culture and its Normative Conventions
Session 8D
Saturday / samedi
9:00-10:30am
Techno, Carnival, and Soul Power
Moderator: Hélène Laurin
Alia Benabdellah, l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne
La ville de Détroit et la techno militante noire américaine
Darrell Baksh, The University of the West Indies
“Long Time We Doh Fête Like Dis”: Old Energies and New Synergies in Trinidad Carnival Music
Junia Miranda Carvalho, Queens University
Soul power in the streets (video presentation)
BREAK 10:30-10:45am
Trottier Building
Session 9A
Saturday
10:45am-12:15pm
Popular Narratives
Moderator: Clare Wall
Lindsay Young, Queens University
Gutter Ghosts and Panel Phantasms: Horror and the Comic Page in Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods
Aidan Diamond, Memorial University
“Your name’s Alice? Is that what you said?”: The Rescue of Wonderland’s Alice in Batman Comics, 1986-2011
Antonio Dominguez Leiva, UQAM
Close Encounters of the Sleaze Kind: Alien Sexual Abduction From Pulps to Ufology
Session 9B
Saturday / samedi
10:45am-12:15pm
Popular Music Scenes, Spaces and Practices
Moderator: Maxim Bonin
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, McGill University
Between the Bump-and-Grind and the Branlements-et-Grouillements: Delineating the Vice in Montreal Jazz (1925-1955)
Martin Lussier, Université du Québec à Montréal
“Pass the torch!” Pedagogical work inside the Montréal emerging music scene
Mark Percival, Queen Margaret University
Making space for musicians: idealism, alternative music and agency in Glasgow, Scotland, 1987-1991
Andi Coulter, SUNY at Buffalo
Theoretical Grist: Creating intimacy through No Wave’s sonic annihilation
Session 9C
Saturday / samedi
10:45am-12:15pm
Funk and Hip Hop Dance Styles: Media Methodologies and “Insider” Histories
Moderator: Sean Robertson-Palmer
Mary Fogarty, York University
The Rise of the Promoter in Breaking Competitions
Marc “Scramblelock” Sakalauskas
The Vault: Collecting and Archiving Street Dance Footage
Helen Simard, Université du Québec à Montréal
B-girls Battling: Gender and Competition in Street Dance Culture
BREAK 12:15-12:30pm
Trottier Building
Session 10A
Saturday / samedi
12:30-2:00pm
The artist as cultural broker: Building an urban arts high-school in Montreal through a school-university-community partnership
Moderator: Bronwen Low
Bronwen Low, McGill University, Melissa Proietti, McGill University, Debora Friedman, McGill University
Introducing the Urban Arts Partnership: Challenges and Possibilities
Cornelia Mandoiu, James Lyng High School, Lou Piensa (Louis Dufieux), Nomadic Massive, WORD, Butta Beats (Nicolas Palacios-Hardy), Nomadic Massive, WORD, Fléo, Artist
De-stigmatizing French through urban art
Jake Roberts, James Lyng High School, TurtleCaps, Artist, Marta Kobiela, McGill University, Limin Jao, McGill University
Teaching scale through graffiti muralism
Nathan Gage, James Lyng High School, Hadi Adel, Musician, Poet, Artist, Maxwell Miller, Rapper, Musician, Artist
Building an urban arts music program: Starting from scratch
Session 10B
Saturday / samedi
12:30-2:00pm
Coffee (and) Culture
Moderator: Natalia Palacio
Valerie Paniccia, York University
The Ideology of the Starbucks Coffee Cup
Mitch Wild, Humber College, Natalia Palacio, Humber College, Nicole Caldarelli, Humber College, Stefanie Serio, Humber College, Tammy Tse, Humber College
How Do You Brew? – A Beverage Pod Study
Session 10C
Saturday / samedi
12:30-2:00pm
History, Governance and Video Games
Moderator: Sarah Stang
Ryan Scheiding, Concordia University
Killing the Past, Teaching the Past: Video Games and Historical Understanding
Rebecca Waldie, Concordia University
Universe of Governance: Video Game Demo
The END – Safe travels!
